Elisabeth Root has received word of funding for her seed grant proposal:  "Characterizing Communities Vulnerable to Opioid Addiction” from the IPR Leadership Committee.

 

OSU Participants, Julien Nicolas (Byrd, lead author), Aaron Wilson (Byrd), David Bromwich (OSU PI), and Jonathan Wille (MS graduate from ASP-Geography) have a notable paper coming out in Nature Communications: J. P. Nicolas et al. “January 2016 extensive summer melt in West Antarctica favoured by strong El Niño,” Nature Communications in press. The paper notes that:

• Accurately projecting the future climate of West Antarctica, especially the occurrence of summer surface melt, is essential to accurately predict the fate of West Antarctic ice shelves and of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet as a whole.

• As the climate warms, extreme El Niño are projected to become more frequent, increasing the frequency of major surface melt events in West Antarctica.

 

Dan Sui attended the “Smart cities, Smart Citizens? Power and participation in the digital city" a workshop organized by CityU of Hong Kong. He presented a paper entitled  "Are Smart cities producing Smart Citizens? A tetradic analysis of power and participation in the digital city." Dan is flying next to Harbin for the 2017 International Association of China Planning annual meeting.